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Business of the House
Thursday 19th December 2013

(10 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robert Goodwill Portrait Mr Goodwill
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HS2 will have a connection via Old Oak Common that provides quick Crossrail connections to Heathrow airport as well, with an 11-minute connection time and eight trains per hour.

Jim Fitzpatrick Portrait Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse) (Lab)
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Does the Minister agree that in order to promote Birmingham airport it would be a good idea to rename the railway station right next to it Birmingham airport station?

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I suspect that people will start to call it that anyway, so it seems an eminently sensible idea.

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